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That Feeling: Rising from the Ashes
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 14 2025
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When Everything Falls Apart, We Learn to Rise
It started with a feeling-a quiet dread that settled like a shadow on Christmas morning, whispering that something was ending. What followed was eighteen months that would reshape everything: the sudden loss of a father, the heartbreak of miscarriage, and the raw work of rebuilding a life from fragments.
But in the middle of all that wreckage, something extraordinary happened. A house became a home. A family grew from grief. And in the space between endings and beginnings, a profound truth emerged: we can choose life, even when it comes in pieces.
This is a story about the storm seasons that break us open-and the quiet mercies that put us back together. About finding strength in hospital corridors and hope in 3 a.m. feedings. About learning that transformation happens not in grand gestures, but in the daily promise to become who we're meant to be.
Raw, honest, and ultimately hopeful, this memoir illuminates how we rise from our darkest moments-not by avoiding the pain, but by walking through it toward the light waiting on the other side.
A testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the healing power of choosing life, again and again.
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